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EJNITEE STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EDWIN R. MARSHALL, OF oHIoAGo, ILLINoIS, AsSIeNoR or Two-THIRns TO PHILIP s. BLODGETI AND oHARLEs o. oHAMRERLAIN, BOTH or SAME PLACE.

HORS'ESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,085, dated November 18, 1884.

Application filed February 28, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. MARSHALL, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Horseshoes, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my horseshoe applied to a horses hoof. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the shoe. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View taken at the line a: m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a plan view of the shoe-plate. Fig. 5 is a top or plan view of the horseshoe, and Fig. 6 an enlarged detached sectional view of a portion of the plate and shoe.

My invention relates to that class of horseshoeing devices which consist of a shoe-plate nailed to the hoof and a shoe detachably fast ,ened to the plate; and it consists in a construction of the plate, and in a combination. of that construction with suitable means for fastening to the shoe, which produce asecure connection more simple and convenient than any now in use with which I am acquainted, which construction and combination I will proceed to describe, and will afterward point out deli nitely in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a horseshoe-plate. It is made with nail-holes, as shown, and also with slots B in its inner edge adapted to receive the bolts which pass through' the sh0e-plate A. Each slot at its inner andclosed end communicates with a countersink on the upper surface of the plate, adapted to receive the head of the bolt, so that it may not project from the level of the plate. There being no toe-calk on this plate A, nails can be driventhrough the toe of the hoof, securing the plate firmly at this point to the hoof.

Ois a horseshoe provided with bolt-holes D.

Eis a groove'on the top surface of the shoe, which describes the same circle as the groove for the nail-heads in the shoe-plate A. In place of the groove E, there may be simply a recess for each nail-head, the object being to prevent the shoe from hearing directly upon the nailheads when the shoeis in place upon the horses foot.

F are bolts by which the shoe 0 is bolted to the shoe-plate A.

G are nuts which screw upon the bolts F and hold the shoe firmly in place.

II is an elastic packing between the shoe and shoe-plate, to deaden the jar of the shoe. It also passes under the nail-heads, as clearly shown in Fig. 6, and prevents the shoe, in connection with the groove E, from thumping upon the nails.

In applying my shoe to the horses foot I first secure the shoe-plate A to the hoof by means of the nails I. The bolts F are then passed laterally into the slots B, the heads of the bolts resting upon the upper surface of the shoe-plate A. The shoe 0 is then placed in position, the boltsF passing through the holes D in the shoe, the packing H having been previously placed in position or placed upon the top of the shoe in position for the bolts to pass through the packing, as shown in the drawings. The nutsG are then screwed upon the bolts F, and the shoe is thereby fastened firmly to the shoe-plate A.

When it is desired to sharpen the shoe or replace a new one, the nuts G are removed from the bolts, when the shoe 0 can readily be removed by slipping it off from the bolts. The bolts then can be moved laterally outof the slots B, the countersinks on the inner surface of the plate making this operation easy, and the horse can step upon the plate A. WVhen the shoe is sharpened, the bolts are first put in position, then the packing, then the shoe is slipped over the bolts, and the nuts put in place. In this manner the shoe is firmly attached to the plate again.

It will be observed that it is not necessary to remove the nails I from the hoof or drive new nails every time that a shoe is sharpened or a new shoe put on in place of an old one.

It is only necessary to drive nails into a horses hoof at such intervals as may be found necessary to pare off the hoof to keep it in proper condition.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The shoe-plate A, shaped as described,

and provided with nail-holes, with slots B 011 holes D, arranged to correspond with the slots,

its inner edge, and with countersinks on its and with bolts having shanks adapted to pass 10 upper surface communicating with the slots, I through the slots and bolt-holes, substantially substantially as and for the purpose described. as and for the purpose described.

2. The shoe-plate A, shaped as described, EDWIN R. MARSHALL. and provided with nail-holes for securing it to witnesses:

the hoof, and slots opening from its inner edge, 1 a THOMAS Pnnsn, in combination with the shoe 0, having bolt- \V. O. GORLIEs. 

